From: Mike Ralphson Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:58:39 GMT Subject: Re: Bug/problem with 1.6.0 on UnixWare Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080821204522.GA29361@coredump.intra.peff.net> 2008/8/21 Jeff King : > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:38:32PM +0100, Mike Ralphson wrote: > >> Great stuff. Though I think it might provoke some patches to improve >> the display of multiple long tag names for the same commit in gitweb! > > Heh. Can you pass along the final version of your build script? I want > to make sure we are doing the same things. http://repo.or.cz/w/git/gitbuild.git?a=blob;f=gitbuild.sh;h=d06fbef3c7aa54ea3beab4b3eed4d73387f3b136;hb=2da51f87b94ef564691a656f91b97472bf6d8c53 The setting of the PATH and GIT_SKIP_TESTS are obviously env. specific. At the moment there's still a bit of manual faffing around when next is rewound after a release. > Yes, in theory, last minute code changes could cause a portability > breakage. However, any changes from the last -rc to the release version > tend to be extremely conservative (as judged by Junio), so in practice > I don't think it happens. For example, I think this git-shell bug made > it into master over a month before release. True, this instance isn't a last minute breakage. Mike